Word Meanings - PERORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a peroration; to harangue.

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• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
• HARANGUEFUL
  Full of harangue.
• PERORATION
  The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke. (more info) speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and
• HARANGUER
  One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.